How To Install libpycaml-ocaml on Debian 9

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libpycaml-ocaml on Debian 9.

What is libpycaml-ocaml

libpycaml-ocaml is:

Pycaml is intended to allow users to build native OCaml libraries and use them from Python, and conversely, in order to allow OCaml users to benefit from linkable libraries provided for Python.

This package contains the runtime library.

There are three methods to install libpycaml-ocaml on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libpycaml-ocaml Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libpycaml-ocaml using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libpycaml-ocaml

Install libpycaml-ocaml Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libpycaml-ocaml using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libpycaml-ocaml

Install libpycaml-ocaml Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install libpycaml-ocaml using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libpycaml-ocaml

How To Uninstall libpycaml-ocaml on Debian 9

To uninstall only the libpycaml-ocaml package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libpycaml-ocaml

Uninstall libpycaml-ocaml And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libpycaml-ocaml and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libpycaml-ocaml

Remove libpycaml-ocaml Configurations and Data

To remove libpycaml-ocaml configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libpycaml-ocaml

Remove libpycaml-ocaml configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libpycaml-ocaml configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libpycaml-ocaml

Dependencies

libpycaml-ocaml have the following dependencies:

• ocaml-base-nox-4.02.3
• libc6
• libpython2.7

References

• libpycaml-ocaml website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libpycaml-ocaml package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.